Hoping to make it easier for crime victims and witnesses to recall license plate numbers, Massachusetts may begin handing out plates with fewer characters and a symbol in place of one digit.

Hearts, stars, fish, squares, and diamonds—these are just a few of the universally identifiable symbols that could one day appear on license plates in Massachusetts. On Tuesday night ...

If your driver's license has one of these symbols on the upper top side, then it is Real ID compliant. The markings indicating compliance are a yellow star, a black star, a yellow circle with a ...